id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mtaul373wbc2llxnztjrkc5wsy Marc Lange Laws, Counterfactuals, Stability, and Degrees of Lawhood 1999 26 .pdf application/pdf 13693 914 69 be suggested that a given law's range of invariance includes every counterfactual antecedent that is logically consistent with every law, does not concern the laws; it is not made true or false by which counterfactual conditionals are correct, and its truth-value does not depend non-nomic facts that are laws; there is then no possibility of its following from the when p is preserved under every counterfactual supposition that is logically consistent with the facts that are physically necessary. truth p in U is preserved under every non-nomic counterfactual antecedent consistent with the laws in U is a trivial, unilluminating fact, have been a gold object exceeding one cubic mile"), though this counterfactual is required by the non-nomic stability of the set under consideration.20 In a great many contexts, we would be correct in denying of physically unnecessary fact, happen to prevail there: Had that universe's non-nomic initial conditions been different in a manner consistent with S (and, therefore, with that world's A), then (although S's ./cache/work_mtaul373wbc2llxnztjrkc5wsy.pdf ./txt/work_mtaul373wbc2llxnztjrkc5wsy.txt